September 1 – 5, 2025
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A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time
From Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, of course
The Editor Who Pulled Joseph Conrad from the Slush Pile
How Edward Garnett gave a 37-Year-Old Conrad his First Big Break
East Bay Booksellers: 10 Small Press Books You Should Read
From Leonora Carrington to Tongo Eisen-Martin
Making the Jump from Stage to Page
Playwright-Turned-Novelist Kia Corthron on the Varieties of Storytelling
How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Cape Town
Charming Old Book Shops and Dimly Lit Bars in the City by the Sea
Honoring the Weird Fire: Poets Chen Chen and Craig Santos Perez In Conversation
On Idiosyncrasies, Poetry in Politics, and Teaching
One Station Away
Olaf Olafsson
“I could hear the sea. That was perhaps an hour after I became paralyzed, although I couldn’t be sure as I soon lost track of time. ”
All the President’s Shakespeare
Fiction/Non/Fiction, No. 6: High Drama and Villainy in Trump's White House
“At Last the Escalade”
Noy Holland
“Well worth it, well worth it, the last of the legendary glaciers and cell phone service besides. They have seen a wolf and bighorn sheep and a hundred cheeping pikas in the rocks and a pair of boxing marmots.”
W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry For a Beautiful Short Film About Running
Runner is a Classic, Unsung Piece of Mid-Century Filmmaking
Our Tonya: Growing Up in Thrall to an American Antiheroine
Tracy O'Neill on the Symbolic Heft of Tonya Harding
Don’t Die, I Say: 3 Poems on Gun Violence and Police Brutality
On the Anniversary of Sandy Hook, Responses from Activists and the
Loved Ones of Victims, Nationwide
20 Questions (And Answers) for the Debut Writer
Ask the Publicists, A Regular Advice Column From Broadside PR
David Grossman on the Stories We Tell Ourselves
How they Divide Us, and How They Might Show Us Another Way to Live
After Alabama: Political Victories Don’t Put Food on the Table
Brandon Taylor on the Fate of Black Voters Who 'Saved' Us From Roy Moore
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